misanthropy

How To Use misanthropy In A Sentence

• I can also detect in my writing my essential misanthropy rearing its ugly head.
• Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel. Archive 2009-11-01
• But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy.
• They almost teach us a response to status anxiety that you could almost call intelligent misanthropy.
• What would that cynic who used to delight us on TV in the eighties with his elegant misanthropy have made of it all?
• His vision of America and of life was tough, irreverent, astringent almost to the point of misanthropy.
• A prominent streak of misanthropy and shyness in his nature resulted in his concert career being sporadic.
• A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy! Biographical Essays
• Along with ‘cynicism and misanthropy,’ he detects Catholic guilt and ‘deep-seated problems with women.’
• Even in the depths of my misanthropy, I must admit to being upset by the situations that some people actually have to survive in.